Synonym: foreground, glare, highlight, limelight, play up, public eye, spot. Similar words: footlights, pilot light, streetlight, ultraviolet light, spotless, lightweight, highlighter, highlights. Meaning: n. 1. a focus of public attention 2. a lamp that produces a strong beam of light to illuminate a restricted area; used to focus attention of a stage performer. v. 1. move into the foreground to make more visible or prominent 2. illuminate with a spotlight, as in the theater.
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121. Let China make some mistakes. It'll take the spotlight off of us.
122. In longevity news, the spotlight frequently passes from one group to another: Georgian yogurt eaters, Japanese pensioners, the Pennsylvania Dutch.
123. But in recent years the issue has returned to the spotlight, largely due to growing interest in the so-called global knowledge-based economy.
124. They featured modified scout armor, with breathing tanks, flippers, and a helmet-mounted spotlight.
125. Diminutive spotlight and enchase the small bulb within the ceiling, can use dash forward show the china that display, potted plant or it is the picture that you dote on is made.
126. When I looked out into the backyard, I could see a spotlight hanging down from a tree. Under the light, I could see that my husband had set up a table saw.
127. The dangers of China's boozy cadre culture are back in the spotlight after one official died and another fell into a coma in separate incidents last week.
128. CiN Weekly : Beijing had the spotlight then. Are you noticing more attention on your music?
129. Meanwhile Greece will be in the spotlight especially its bond syndication.
130. He stole the spotlight, one reporter wrote, "with the studied nonchalance of an old vaudeville trouper."
131. This is the only time all year when the Sun is at high noon in your chart acting like a spotlight on you.
132. Earnings have stolen the spotlight from broader economic reports this week as 113 of the 500 companies in the Standard and Poor's 500 index report third-quarter results.
133. The economy will come under the spotlight today at the conference of the Trades Union Congress.
134. Sliding spotlight SAR is a novel mode of SAR imaging, which can improve azimuth resolution by controlling the speed of antenna footprint to increase coherent accumulation time.
135. After the extensive news coverage of this momentous event,(http://sentencedict.com/spotlight.html) the study of genetic engineering and recombinant DNA was thrown into the public spotlight.
136. "?Pop crooner Barry Manilow explores the perils of life in the spotlight on his new album, "15 Minutes. " Barry Manilow's new album "15 Minutes" deals with the negative consequences of fame.
137. The Kilroy-Silk debate has thrown the spotlight on an age-old dilemma - how can you uphold free speech while preserving social order? Something always has to give.
138. Now Spotlight will work on your entire disk except on this Stitcher?
139. He wanted to be in [ to hold ] the spotlight.
140. Part-timer Anne Abreu, a San Mateo, Calif., insurance specialist, knows her schedule puts her 'under the spotlight,' she says.
141. The products mainly consist of LED solar energy lamp series, lamp bulb series, LED surface plate lamp series, spotlight series, ceiling lamp series, lamp filament series, etc.
142. I, like many other children, craved the spotlight yet also feared it.
143. That dream , which may not be too far off, puts the insula in the spotlight.
144. At center, tar patties and tarballs—normally brown or black—near Pensacola Beach, Florida, glow orange-yellow under an ultraviolet spotlight.
145. Dead almost 40 years, J. Edgar Hoover returns to the spotlight as the Clint Eastwood biopic "J. Edgar" opens in theaters this week.
146. A Houston resident used a low-voltage pin spotlight to illuminate a garden pond and waterfall under an exterior wall.
147. The recent shooting down of a police helicopter in Rio de Janeiro has cast the spotlight on to places such as Pedro Juan Caballero, along 16, 000km of "dry border" between Brazil and its neighbours.
148. It is possible that North Korea's hardline sabre-rattling shines a spotlight onto internal power struggles inside the hermit kingdom.
149. Jay Sean's recent success stateside two million copies of Down sold has pointed the domestic spotlight his way like never before.
150. But it is this laid-back lifestyle that has attracted international attention. At least, a quiet village within Gaochun county has come under the spotlight.
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